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Annexure IAnnexure IIInternational Guidelines onHIV/AIDS and Human RightsGuideline 1: States should establish aneffective national framework for theirresponse to HIV/AIDS which ensures acoordinated, participatory, transparentand accountable approach, integratingHIV/AIDS policy and programmeresponsibilities across all branches ofGovernment.Guideline 2: States should ensure,through political and financial support,that community consultation occurs inall phases of HIV/AIDS policy design,programme implementation andevaluation and that communityorganisations are enabled to carry out theiractivities, including in the field of ethics,law and human rights, effectively.Guideline 3: States should review andreform public health laws to ensure thatthey adequately address public healthissues raised by HIV/AIDS, that theirprovisions applicable to casuallytransmitted diseases are notinappropriately applied to HIV/AIDS andthat they are consistent with internationalhuman rights obligations.Guideline 4: States should review andreform criminal laws and correctionalsystems to ensure that they are consistentwith international human rightsobligations and are not misused in thecontext of HIV/AIDS or targeted againstvulnerable groups.Guideline 5: States should enact orstrengthen anti-discrimination and otherprotective laws that protect vulnerablegroups, people living with HIV/AIDSand people with disabilities fromdiscrimination in both the public andprivate sectors, ensure privacy andconfidentiality and ethics in researchinvolving human subjects, emphasiseeducation and conciliation, and providefor speedy and effective administrativeand civil remedies.Guideline 6: States should enactlegislation to provide for the regulationof HIV-related goods, services andinformation, so as to ensure widespreadavailability of qualitative preventionmeasures and services, adequate HIVprevention and care information andsafe and effective medication at anaffordable price. States should also takemeasures necessary to ensure for allpersons on a sustained and equal basis,the availability and accessibility ofquality goods, services and informationfor HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment,care and support, including antiretroviraland other safe and effectivemedicines, diagnostics and relatedtechnologies for preventive, curativeand palliative care of HIV/AIDS andrelated opportunistic infections andconditions. States should take suchmeasures at both domestic andinternational levels, with particularattention to vulnerable individuals andpopulations. 11Guideline 6 was revised to this text at the 3 rd International Consultation on HIV/AIDS and HumanRights, Geneva, 25–26 July 2002 (OHCHR/UNAIDS).Regional Human Development Report162 HIV/AIDS and Development in South Asia 2003